Diablo III Running on Consoles at Blizzard

Blizzard has announced that Diablo III is currently running on consoles, though it hasn't yet been granted the status of an "official project".

Speaking to Polygon, Blizzard executive Rob Pardo explained that the team was testing to see how the game performed on unspecified consoles, which would in turn lead to official ports should it go well enough.

"We're still kind of exploring it," he explained. "We've got builds up and running on it. We're hoping to get it far enough along where we can make it an official project, but we're not quite ready to release stuff about it, but it's looking pretty cool."
(Diablo III, Next-Gen, PS3, Wii U, Xbox 360)

Yeah, I hope to god they do away with the auction house AND the "always on" BS if they bring it over.

Blizzard keeps saying that they didn't tweak the drops in the game to facilitate the usage of their AH, but I still have my doubts. It is very, VERY time consuming to get through Inferno without resorting to the auction house at some point.

1 Con will be using anything ranged. With analog controller sticks , exact aiming is going to be nasty. Better stick to aoe splash damage. Melee will do fine with this. I'm sure there will be bots. Especially on the xbox side of things.

Not surprising. After being able to max it out w/ my old 4850, I remember checking out the lowest settings... while maybe not up to PS2 standards, on its lowest settings Diablo III certainly doesn't look like anything an original Xbox or Gamecube couldn't handle.

And, hell, apparently even an integrated Intel GPU can handle it.

Say what you will about Diablo III's myriad flaws, Bethesda really hit it out of the park in terms of optimization and hardware scaling.

Seeing as how the gamepad is supposedly a battery hog, you'd be best to have 2 gamepads around, because lag spikes or a dead controller in the middle of an encounter will leave you with a repair bill or worse, if you're playing on Hard Core, a dead toon.

game was already designed with console in mind anyway, the reason is sucked so badly on PC, just glad they keep the D2 battle realm alive, have just been playing D2 classic as normal, so thanks for that at least blizzard

no i own ps3, and few handhelds mate, fact is d3 was already designed with console in mind, look at d2 then look back at d3, when i said it sucked i did not mean because of the consoles, but the way they designed the game and game play, sorry if i come across hating on console, that was not my intention